Chapter Eight: Tour Discoveries

Beast Boy and Raven, now in their disguises as normal looking Garfield and Rachel, approached the Headmaster a crossed the drive.

"Ah Rachel Jean Roth welcome to Keegan Yue Academy. We hope that you enjoy your year here. We've looked over you application several times and are very excited to see you in the classrooms. We hope you decided to join some academics as well." Raven shook his hand and gave a slight smile. Seemed her brains were already the talk among the staff here. The headmaster then turned to Beast Boy and rushed right over to him.

"Mr. Garfield Mark Logan, it is an honor to finally meet you. We are so very excited to see you here and I'm sure our music teacher is very excited to see you. I am looking forward to seeing you in the many academics and extracurricular activities. We hope you decided on a few teams to join not to mention our music program. Who am I kidding I know you'll join the music program." The headmaster shook Beast Boy's hand the whole time he spoke to him.

"Yeah sure, I'll look into it. I am looking forward to classes though." The man smiled at them both.

"Yes, wonderful two more exceptionally brilliant students added to our school. I am Headmaster Jackson. I will show you around campus today and where your dorm is. Am I to understand you both will be staying in the same dorm in the unisexed room?" They both nodded not wanting to give any more information about that. They started to the middle of campus, the common area.

The middle of the campus was a wide open field. All around the field were buildings. Some had walk ways from third floor to third floor. For when it was cold out Raven guessed, looking over at the snowcapped mountains. It was a little chilly this late in April, spring classes had begun only two weeks ago. A year round school, that was new to her. Most schools she had heard of were out during the summer, they were not.

"As you can see we have a very large campus. Here is the Keegan Center. The center is used for break time for students as well as special events. This year we have decided to hold our Summer Dance here in the field." Looking around they noted that it would indeed make a great place for a dance. The three walked to the left and started the tour in the Math hall.

"So this building is where all the math classes are held?" The headmaster nodded his head and continued to walk.

"Yes, each building is dedicated to a form of learning. From left on around we have the Math Hall, English Hall, Music Hall, Gym, Language Hall, Theater Arts, and Science Hall." They walked through each building getting to know the lay of the land. Raven made sure to remember each level and the ways around the buildings. She had no doubt she could get around quite fast without her powers.

"Rae, stop thinking so hard. You're giving me a headache just watching you." Beast Boy laughed at this and turned his attention back to the headmaster. Even Raven had to admit she was thinking way too much into this and smiled. This caused Beast Boy to grin even wider at her; she found she missed that little fang.

"Well this is the last building, Science Hall. We expect great things from both of you. Rachel when we looked at what you have taken and what you were good at we found you are missing only one class, Animal Science." Raven stopped dead in her tracks, she had hoped she never had to take that class. It was just a little too close to home looking over at the changeling. He appeared to be falling over laughing at her. However, thinking back to her schedule she remembered he had this class on his list.

"I wouldn't laugh too much Garfield you haven't taken the class yet either. I remember seeing it on your schedule too."

'That was the dumbest come back ever Raven.'

'Oh shut up Wisdom, he's laughing at me.'

'I know he is but he's part animal this class will be a walk in the park for him.' Raven mentally groaned. She was in trouble now and she hoped to God that he didn't say something stupid to get them caught.

"Ah but Rachel have you forgotten?" Raven groaned they were in trouble he was going to say something stupid. "I lived in Africa for most of my life. I know my animals and flora. Not to mention my parents were some of the most amazing scientist around." This shocked Raven, he didn't blow their cover.

"Oh Garfield, I do miss your parents. Mark and Marie were very smart young people and really made their mark here on the campus. Here come this way. Each building has a hall of fame dedicated to the people who became amazing in their field and went to this school. I think you will enjoy this." They walked to the back of the building and down a long hall way. It was covered in pictures of people from the beginning of the school till most recently.

Raven watched the pictures as they passed there were several Logan's on the wall. With each Logan that they passed she looked to Beast Boy. He looked like he was expecting something to happen or to see something.

"Garfield there are a lot of Logan's on the wall, are you related to them all?" Beast Boy nodded his head and looked at her.

"Yeah, I am related to them. There has been a Logan here since it opened. I thought my dad was going to be the last one. But here I am walking down the halls both my parents walked." The Headmaster laughed at this.

"We hope that you are not the last Mr. Logan. We hope you send your children here for at least one year." Beast Boy smiled at this but it was a sad smile Raven noticed.

'That smile seems to be very sad Raven.'

'I know I wonder why he's sad about that comment. Surely he will have children, lots of them. He's too good not to be a dad one day. He would be an amazing dad.'

'Yes he would, he would make a wonderful father and you a mother.' Raven stopped dead at that thought. She looked ahead not really looking at anything just ahead of her. The Headmaster and Beast Boy stopped and looked back at her.

"Hey Rae, are you alright?" Raven snapped out of her daze and looked at Beast Boy's eyes. She nodded her head slowly but started to avoid his eyes when she felt her blush start to win over.

"Yes, I'm fine just got distracted that's all." Beast Boy nodded understanding her emotions had spoken to her. He would have to ask her later if he remember.

"Well her we are Garfield. We hung these pictures a couple days before your parents died. They made great scientist. They made this place proud to have taught them." In front of them was a picture of both Mark and Marie Logan. It was the same picture that Beast Boy had too, the one with the Logan's just arriving in Africa. Next to this picture was an empty space, she assumed the space was for Garfield when he did something great. They obviously expect that. Raven looked at Beast Boy and saw the smile on his face. This meant a lot to him, this school. Raven put her hand on his shoulder and smiled at him. He gave a smile back and turned to the Headmaster.

"Well I think Rachel and I are ready to go to our room." The Headmaster nodded and led them back out to their vehicles.

"If you follow me I will take you to your spots in the parking garage. Then take you up to your room. I hope you find it acceptable. The rooms are new due to originally not wanting to do uni-sexed dorm building." Raven and Beast Boy followed the Headmaster to the garage and showed them their spots. As they walked through the building they noticed that it was pretty full. Most of the rooms had either boys or girls in them not one of each. "Ah here we are Room 13 on the 13th floor. The door to the roof is down the hall and to the left." The two started to daze out as the academy rules were told to them. It wasn't like they didn't know the rules already. Robin had made sure they knew basically everything important to the school before leaving. "Do you both understand?"

"Yes we understand perfectly. Thank you Headmaster Jackson." Raven nodded in agreement with Beast Boy. Before the Headmaster left them to get unpacked Raven stopped him.

"Oh, Headmaster Jackson, what is tomorrow?" The man looked at her before understanding what she was asking.

"Oh tomorrow is a Green day. Be ready for your classes. We've been in classes for only a week since we got back from break. I'm not sure if the teachers sent you your homework but if they have be sure to have it ready for them." With that the two were by themselves.

"So which side of the dorm would you like, Rae?" Raven looked around the room and walked to the left side.

"I'll take the left it's away from the kitchen. Knowing you, you'll get up for a midnight snack." Beast Boy laughed but agreed with her on this. It made her smile however; he let her pick which side for sure she wanted. She was pretty sure Robin would have gone right to whichever side he wanted and taken it. Cyborg and Star might have thought about it for a second before just taking a room.

They separated so they could unpack. Once alone with his thoughts Beast Boy began to wonder about his time here. What will Raven discover about him here? There was much he still had to show the Titans. They knew his history, what happens if he lost either the DNA change or the illness, they also knew he just plays dumb. However, they didn't know how much he played dumb. It was true engineering was not something he understood at all but math, history, English, and music he knew well.

'I wonder what I'll discover about Raven. I know she's gained more control over her powers lately. Things haven't blown up as much since our trip to Tokyo. She's showed a little more emotion every day, a smile here, a small laugh there. It was nice to see it.' Beast Boy was pulled from his thoughts by Raven.

"Hey Garfield?" He looked up and smiled at her in his door. "We need to go get something to eat and some groceries."

"Yeah alright, let me finish putting my clothes away and we'll go into town." Raven waited at his door as he finished up. She noticed that he was pretty clean about things and just had to comment.

"Garfield I have a question for you." Beast Boy looked up at Raven waiting for her to continue. "I was wondering why you are so clean right now but at home your room looks like a disaster zone?" Beast Boy had to laugh at this. Here was the first thing she would learn about him.

"Well see that isn't really a hard question to answer. But there is a long answer and the short answer. The short answer is instincts." When he got an eyebrow raised from her he couldn't help but laugh.

"What's so funny?"

"You are. The whole eyebrow thing was pretty funny. Alright here is the long answer. It is instincts but not just any instincts. It is animal instincts; I have every animal instinct running through my body at all times. Instincts to hunt, to run, to pack, to collect, you name it I have it. I've gotten pretty good about suppressing most of them but at the cost that other instincts have gotten stronger. Like my instinct to make a den or some bed like thing has gotten stronger with the suppression to hunt or whatever." Raven nodded in understanding and gave one of those small smiles he so craved.

"So does this mean your senses are heighten as well?" Beast Boy nodded to this as well.

"Yep, I can see better than an eagle, smell better than a wolf, and I hear better than a bat." Raven looked at him closely he did seem to breath shallower then most humans. When they had night mission it was always Beast Boy who led the way when they had no light. It was all starting to make sense to her.

"We better go get the food now." Beast Boy nodded and hung his bike keys on the wall by the door. Smiling she reached for her keys and walked out the door. This would be the first time he's been in The Bird since he helped build it.

Once at the store they walked around looking for their favorite food. Beast Boy stuck a bunch of tofu into the cart along with a bunch of fruits and veggies. Sighing at the reaction she was sure to get she stuck some organic chicken and beef into the cart as well. Not a peep was heard from him. Looking at him she saw he knew it was there just didn't say anything.

"Garfield did you ever eat meat, I mean before you got your powers?" Beast Boy looked up in surprise to the question. No one had ever asked if he ate meat at one time.

"Yeah, when I was really little I did. I stopped eating meat when I was about ten. That was when the Doom Patrol adopted me."

"So why did you stop eating meat?"

"Well, Rita was on a health kick and the whole Doom for a while stopped eating meat. I got so used to it I just never went back to eating meat. I fight with Cyborg all the time because well I have a bit of an issue eating chemical induced meat. I might be able to handle organic meats. The smell of the chemicals really puts me off of the meat at home." Beast Boy laughed at the last part.

"Do you ever miss eating meat?" Again Beast Boy was shocked it was like she knew every question nobody asked him.

"Sometimes I miss it. Other times I'm repulsed by it. However, I know I won't always be a vegetarian; yes I do drink milk and eat eggs. With the Doom I became a vegan as I got older I decided milk and eggs wasn't that bad to eat. Now that 'The Beast' is awake I'm sure it won't be long now before I'm back to eating a little bit of meat now and then." This shocked Rave in turn. What did 'The Beast' have to do with anything?

"What do you mean by 'The Beast'?" Beast Boy smiled as they entered the checkout line.

"What I mean is that 'The Beast' is the most primal side of me. I crave more than ever. My instincts are stronger. It's just become a strange and highly sensitive topic area." Raven smiled if she knew animals well then the instincts he was suppressing were hard ones to do and he was doing an excellent job of doing so.

They went back to the dorm and got ready for class the next day. Raven set her bag in the armchair next to Beast Boy's and sat next to him on the couch. Looking sidelong at him she noticed he was doing something in a notebook.

"What are you doing?" Looking up he smiled.

"Oh well my musical arts class had homework. I was told I didn't need to do it but I decided to do it anyway." Raven smiled and turned back to the cartoons on the T.V. "I wasn't sure what you'd want to watch so I just flipped it to cartoons you can change it if you want." Looking up she noticed it was indeed a cartoon.

"So what is this show called?" Looking up briefly to the screen he saw a one eyed purple haired girl and a red head being shot at.

"Futurama, this is the episode where they get superpowers or some silly thing like that." Looking back down to his notebook he continued to write.

"At home when do you find time to do your homework? I know like the rest of us you do school work but we never would have guessed you actually did it." Beast Boy smiled down at his work and closed the book. He sighed before looking at Raven.

"Well I'm not proud to say that the nocturnal animals tend to win out the instinct war. They are some of the few instincts I can't stop from winning. I do a lot of my homework in the dead of night while everyone is asleep." Raven looked at him wide eyed. She would have never guessed it in a million years.

"Well it's almost time for bed. We're going to have a long day tomorrow." Beast Boy nodded in agreement shutting the notebook and putting it in his bag for tomorrow.

"Do you want to check out our extra room?" Raven nodded and they walked off to the room. It was the first door when you walked into the dorm a crossed from the kitchen. When they reached it they opened to door to reveal a dark room. However, once the light was turned on one piece of furniture gleamed in the light. It took Beast Boy's breath away when he saw it.

"A grand piano? Wonderful just what we need, something for you to play on and destroy." If Beast Boy had looked like his normal green self she would have noticed his ears drop a little. Beast Boy however didn't show it on his normal face he was upset by the comment. He looked around and spotted the room also had paints and other arts supplies. Raven sighed and walked out of the room. "Let's make a deal, no one touches the piano."

"Sure Rae, whatever you say." Beast Boy crossed his fingers behind his back he'll just have to do it while Raven is in class. As they walked to their rooms Beast Boy smiled at the thought of being able to see what life was like for his parents. It would be a little different knowing they were here to take out a talent stealer. With that thought they said goodnight and went to bed.